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Christenbury knows all too well that some education professors are clueless about kids and just about everything else that happens in classrooms these days. She once taught at a university in another state where students were baffled that some of their professors had never set foot in a school.

Our intelligence tends to produce technological and social change at a rate faster

than our institutions and emotions can cope with. . . . Innovation is cumulative

and the rate of change accelerates. We therefore find ourselves continually trying

to accommodate new realities within inappropriate existing institutions, and

trying to think about those new realities in traditional but sometimes dangerously irrelevant terms. - Gwynne Dyer, War, p. 441